"But if, after you think about it, you're still convinced none of these people could possibly snort cocaine, you're either blind or you're lying. Or the one who uses it is you. You won't forget those four pages, because they're telling the truth. That truth may be approached from different angles financial, therapeutic, political to understand how cocaine affects decision-making in small, private lives and in presidential offices."
"Since well before Bret Easton Ellis and his 1990s classic American Psycho, the ritual associated with snorting cocaine has constituted a fantastical visual synthesis of unrestrained capitalism. It involves a substance that looks like a pharmaceutical, placed on a surface in the form of graphic lines with the help of a credit card. We inhale through a rolled-up dollar bill."
A long roster of people might use cocaine, demonstrating that users come from every social stratum: teachers, writers, neighbors, doctors, family members. Cocaine controls elements of the global economy and colonizes many spheres of human existence. The drug shapes decision-making from private lives to presidential offices through euphoria and by amplifying psychological wounds. Cocaine sustains empires and fuels brutal violence, including beheadings carried out in its name. Cocaine enters and exits books, affecting writers' and readers' minds by stimulating, exhausting, and deforming them. The ritual of snorting symbolizes unrestrained capitalism through pharmaceutical appearance, lined presentation, credit cards, and rolled dollar bills.
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